The Red Shield, 2002

Commissioned for the Scotia Festival of Music, September 2002 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bronze, patinated, 59” x 55” x 5” (160 x 150 x 15 cm)

The Red Shield is worked from the red shields series. It is standing upright, casually leaning against a pole. As a thing that is not armature or shell, it reflects on our uprightness, opposes our
sense of being – superior. The Red Shield grounds us and makes us wonder how we relate to inhuman things, it makes us wonder about the nature of objects and our relation to form as a presence that
seems to be familiar, but rests unknown.

There is a pending legal battle with this piece, as the Custodian took it upon himself to have my sculpture painted in a bright tractor orange. See also: It's not only a matter of colour by Elissa
Barnard, Arts Reporter, Chronicle Herald, Halifax.